Amendment: SEC Form 20-F/A filed by AMTD IDEA Group

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 20-F/A

(Amendment No. 1)

(Mark One)

☐ REGISTRATION STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OR (g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

OR

☒ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023

OR

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from          to             

OR

☐ SHELL COMPANY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of event requiring this shell company report

Commission File Number: 001-39006

AMTD IDEA GROUP
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

N/A

(Translation of Registrant’s Name into English)

Cayman Islands

(Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)

75001 Paris

France

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

Feridun Hamdullahpur, Chairman of Executive Management Committee and Board of Directors

75001 Paris

France

Telephone: +33 (0) 1 4236 4597

(Name, Telephone, Email and/or Facsimile Number and Address of Company Contact Person)

Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

None

(Title of Class)

Securities for which there is a reporting obligation pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act:

None

(Title of Class)

Indicate the number of outstanding shares of each of the issuer’s classes of capital or common stock as of the close of the period covered by the annual report:

242,765,736 Class A ordinary shares, par value US$0.0001 per share, and 233,526,979 Class B ordinary shares, par value US$0.0001 per share, as of December 31, 2023.

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. ☐ Yes ☒ No

If this report is an annual or transition report, indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. ☐ Yes ☒ No

Note — Checking the box above will not relieve any registrant required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 from their obligations under those Sections.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. ☒ Yes ☐ No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). ☒ Yes ☐ No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or an emerging growth company. See definition of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards† provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. ☐

If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrant included in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-based compensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ☐

Indicate by check mark which basis of accounting the registrant has used to prepare the financial statements included in this filing:

If “Other” has been checked in response to the previous question, indicate by check mark which financial statement item the registrant has elected to follow. ☐ Item 17 ☐ Item 18

If this is an annual report, indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). ☐ Yes ☒ No

(APPLICABLE ONLY TO ISSUERS INVOLVED IN BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS DURING THE PAST FIVE YEARS)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed all documents and reports required to be filed by Sections 12, 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 subsequent to the distribution of securities under a plan confirmed by a court. ☐ Yes ☐ No

EXPLANATORY NOTE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Item 16F. CHANGE IN REGISTRANT’S CERTIFYING ACCOUNTANT

Effective April 22, 2024, we engaged Audit Alliance LLP, or Audit Alliance, as our independent registered public accounting firm to audit our consolidated financial statements as of and for each of the fiscal years ended December 31, 2021, 2022 and 2023. We dismissed Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, or Deloitte, on April 22, 2024 and notified Deloitte of such dismissal on April 23, 2024. The change of our independent registered public accounting firm was approved by our board of directors and the audit committee of our board.

A copy of Deloitte’s letter dated June 26, 2024 in response to the original disclosures under Item 16F of our annual report on Form 20-F originally filed on May 13, 2024 is attached as Exhibit 16.2.

The audit reports of Deloitte on our consolidated financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2022 did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion. They were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principle. During the fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and 2022, and the subsequent period prior to the dismissal of Deloitte, or the covered period, there were no (i) disagreements between us and Deloitte on accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedures, to have caused Deloitte to make reference thereto in their reports on the financial statements for such years, or (ii) “reportable events” as defined in Form 20-F Item 16F(a)(1)(v), supplemented by the following paragraph.

Deloitte advised us that information had come to Deloitte’s attention during the covered period, which, if further investigated, may materially impact the fairness or reliability of either a previously issued audit report or the underlying financial statements of ours; or the financial statements issued or to be issued covering the fiscal period(s) subsequent to the date of the most recent financial statements covered by an audit report (including information that may prevent Deloitte from rendering an unqualified audit report on those financial statements). The information related to two writs filed against certain of our ex-subsidiaries.

Given that Deloitte was dismissed as our auditors on April 22, 2024, following the formal procedures and confirmation to us by Audit Alliance that its engagement for the audit of our consolidated financial statements as of and for each of the fiscal years ended December 31, 2021, 2022 and 2023 under United States generally accepted accounting principles, including the completion of clearance procedures with Deloitte in accordance with PCAOB requirements and internal guidelines and criteria of Audit Alliance LLP through an in-person meeting that took place in Singapore on April 22, 2024, the audit committee of our board of directors determined that there was no need to discuss the matters raised by Deloitte and set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph further with Deloitte subsequent to its dismissal.

During our fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and 2022 and through the subsequent interim period on or prior to the engagement of Audit Alliance, neither us nor anyone on our behalf consulted with Audit Alliance on either (a) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed, or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on our financial statements, and neither a written report nor oral advice was provided to us that Audit Alliance concluded was an important factor considered by us in reaching a decision as to any accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue, or (b) any matter that was the subject of a disagreement, as that term is defined in Item 16F(a)(1)(iv) of Form 20-F (and the related instructions thereto) or a reportable event as set forth in Item 16F(a)(1)(v)(A) through (D) of Form 20-F.

Item 19. EXHIBITS

SIGNATURES

The registrant hereby certifies that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 20-F and that it has duly caused and authorized the undersigned to sign this annual report on its behalf.